Brett Robertson

Part of Riverdeep Group Plc, Broderbund Software, Inc. is a software company based in Novato, CA. The private company offers a wide range of software products that can make things easier and help improve one's life. The company's products include software for making greeting cards, learning typing, creating newsletters, scrapbooks, and more. The company also offers a complete premium art collection with over 12,500 royalty-free images suitable for personal and business use. Broderbund Software was acquired by The Learning Co., Inc. on August 31, 1998 for $374.65 million.

Critical Path, Inc. provided consumer messaging solutions. It offered messaging software and services to service providers and enterprises. The firm's portfolio of applications and services enabled people to communicate, connect, share and organize. The company was founded by David C. Hayden in 1997 and was headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); My Search (mysearch.com); My Way (myway.com); My Web Search (mywebsearch.com) and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies.

StubHub, Inc. engages in the provision of online ticket exchange services. It operates secure site for the transactions, shipping, and customer service; and offers charity ticket packages for events. The company was founded by Eric H. Baker and Jeffery G. Lawson in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Invuity, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. The firm engages in the development and marketing of surgical and medical devices. Its products include retractors, handhelds and drop-ins under the Photonics and PhotonBlade brands. The company was founded by Kenneth B. Trauner and Alex Vayser on November 29, 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NeurogesX, Inc. developed and commercialized novel pain management therapies. The company was founded by Wendye R. Robbins on May 28, 1998 and was headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Vineti, Inc. develops software for scaling and digital solutions for cell and gene therapies. The firm focuses on enabling life changing autologous therapies, supporting standards, and developing infrastructure that will expand patient access through expedited discovery, delivery and regulation in the field. The company was founded by Heidi Hagen, Malek Faham, Amy DuRoss and Razmik Abnous and is headquartered in San Francisco CA.